What does chibcha mean in Spanish?

1 : a member of an Indian people of central Colombia.

What language did the Chibcha speak?

Chibcha language

Where did the Chibchas live?

Colombia
Chibcha, also called Muisca, South American Indians who at the time of the Spanish conquest occupied the high valleys surrounding the modern cities of Bogotá and Tunja in Colombia.

What does the name of the Chibcha language mean?

The name of the language Muysccubun or muyskkubun in its own language means “language of the people” or “language of the men”, from muyska / muysca (“people” or “men”) and kubun / cubun (“language” or “word”). Chibcha in the Chibcha language means “look man!”.

What is the meaning of the word Chib Chuh?

[chib-chuh] noun, plural Chib·chas, (especially collectively) Chib·cha for 1. a member of a now extinct tribe of South American Indians, having an advanced culture, who lived on a high plateau of Bogotá, Colombia. the extinct language of the Chibcha.

Where did the Chibcha people live in Colombia?

Chibcha was a language spoken in nowadays Colombia by the Muisca people, one among the many advanced indigenous civilizations of the Americas. The Muisca inhabited the central highlands ( Altiplano Cundiboyacense) of what today is the country of Colombia.

When did the Spanish ban the Chibcha language?

In 1606 the entire clergy was ordered to provide religious instruction in Chibcha. The Chibcha language declined in the 18th century. In 1770, King Charles III of Spain officially banned use of the language in the region as part of a de-indigenization project. The ban remained in law until Colombia passed its constitution of 1991 .